Hi, I just wanted to tell anyone & everyone that is doing census lookups to also look for different spellings of the 1st name. My great grandfather's 1st name is Nepthly. In the 1910 census they spelled it Nepp. I just want everyone to be careful when they're doing lookups because I had asked people to do lookups for this person & everyone kept saying they couldn't find him but I found him because of the different spellings of the name. Just everyone please be careful. Thanks, Angel
I (speaking only for myself, of course) always check for any given name that might possibly have been mis-transcribed as something similar, whether volunteering my time or researching for fee. However, we all do make mistakes, even when we give it our all and are as "careful" as we possibly can be. It's always a good idea to check the census for yourself any time someone can't locate an ancestor who is certainly there, and the best method is a page-by-page search - which a volunteer cannot possibly do for you. What was Nepthly's surname? Linda in Georgia Census/Cemetery Lookup Volunteer Genealogy is my ONLY business. ----- Original Message ----- From: <Msgmsg22@aol.com> To: <TX-CENSUS-LOOKUP-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 2:48 PM Subject: [TX-CEN] INFO > Hi, > > I just wanted to tell anyone & everyone that is doing census lookups to also look for different spellings of the 1st name. My great grandfather's 1st name is Nepthly. In the 1910 census they spelled it Nepp. I just want everyone to be careful when they're doing lookups because I had asked people to do lookups for this person & everyone kept saying they couldn't find him but I found him because of the different spellings of the name. Just everyone please be careful. > > Thanks, > Angel > > > ==== TX-CENSUS-LOOKUP Mailing List ==== > Free Soundex code converter > http://resources.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/soundexconverter > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >